Sungai Petani, Malaysia

SUNGAI PETANI: A mentally-disabled man was found dead in bushes near Taman Permai Bistari in Sungai Lalang here early yesterday.

Chartis Malaysia Insurance Bhd expects to achieve a 7.5 per cent growth in premiums next year, chief executive officer Rob Ryan said.

The body of G. Guakanthan, whose death had been classified as sudden death by police was exhumed on Wednesday for the second post-mortem to be conducted at Sungai Petani Hospital.

KUALA LUMPUR: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has called Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad a racist for defending the National Civics Bureau training modules.

ALOR STAR: State Immigration Department officers rounded up 93 illegal immigrants at two industrial areas on Thursday.

SUNGAI PETANI: Two teenagers were injured when they were kicked off their motorcycle in a snatch theft incident near SK Semeling, near here, on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Every time L. Ramamurthy reads about parents appealing for donations for babies stricken with heart problems, he gets a lump in the throat.

SUNGAI PETANI: A 16-year- old teenager was killed and his pillion rider seriously injured when their motorcycle was rammed by a car at a junction here on Wednesday.

SUNGAI PETANI: A burglar kept police and residents at bay for nearly an hour after he fled to the rooftop of a house in Taman Ria Jaya here.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 -- The Dewan Rakyat was told Tuesday that public perception that the use of the RON95 petrol could damage the car's engine is inaccurate.

SUNGAI PETANI: Three in a family were killed in an accident when the van they were travelling in skidded and hit a tree at Km 108.8, North-South Expressway here this morning.

Travelling opens up a whole new world for even the most jaded spirit. A RETIREE, or any senior citizen, should not be discouraged by age to get out of the house and see the country.

SUNGAI PETANI: Firemen had to use a truck to take a man weighing 250kg out of his house in Taman Petani Jaya, here yesterday.

EXPANDING: Hassan speaking at the opening of the PRM Sungai Petani branch. The others are Koh, Sungai Petani branch chairman Lim Pok Long, Teh Soon Ming and Workers' Organisation chairman Thiagaraja PARTI Rakyat Malaysia is on the move.

GEORGE TOWN: Four families are appealing for help to pay for the cost of surgery for their children at the Gleaneagles Medical Centre here.

KAMPAR: Dozens of family members, relatives and friends of the three Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman undergraduates who drowned at the Batu Berangkai waterfalls here yesterday turned up at the mortuary as the bodies were released today.

The bodies of three Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman students, who had drowned at the Batu Berangkai Waterfall, here, were found late Sunday night.

What is it about Halloween that makes us seek things that go bump in the night? People dressed up in the weirdest outfits imaginable, pumpkin heads grinning eerily in the night and children going house to house trick-or-treating for candy.

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 29 -- Sixteen stall owners lost their belongings when fire razed their stalls at the Taman Ria market here at about 3pm Thursday.

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 29 -- A technician who put up a fight with five robbers armed with machetes was hacked to death at his bungalow in Jalan Bakar Sampah here last night.